Taxonomy

A: African American, Adolescence  

B: Beauty

C: Coming of age, Curiosity, Confusion 

D: Discrimination, Death

E: Education, Equality

F: Family, Future,

G: Growing up, Generation

H: Heredity, Heritage, History, hair 

I: Identity

J: Justice 

K: Kindness, Killing, Kids

L: Love, Loneliness

M: Mystery, Moving

N: Neighborhood, name calling

O: Oppression, Optimism 

P: Point of View, Police, Pride 

Q: Quiet

R: Race, Racism, Religion

S: Segregation, Success, Stories, Secretes, 

T: Troubles, Transitions

U: Unity, Unique, Understanding

V: Violence

W: Woman, Whites

X: 

Y: Youth 

Z

PowToon: Nella

What are you?

Girl Who Fell, Text to word
I have been asked the question "who are you?" because i'm asian. They usually say "what are you? Chinese? Japanese? Korean?" Ive been asked the question since I was really little by a lot of people. And almost 90% of the time I answer "Korean" , but if i have the time and feel like it i'll add the fact that i'm adopted also because its something I want people to know. That a person can be adopted so they might look nothing like their parents. I would answer that same way if someone were to ask me that right now.

In the Girl Who Fell From the Sky Rachel does have to pick a side. For example, "Her name is Carmen LaGuardia, and she has hair like mine, my same color skin, and she counts as black. I don't understand how, but she seems to know. I see people two different ways now: people who look like me and people who don't look like me" (Durrow, 2010, 9). Rachel when she went to her first day at school in the town her grandma lives in she notices that things are different and she doesn't know if she is white or black. but she isn't giving the choice of both. To add the book says "On the dinning room mantel are photographs of me and Pop. Of me and Grandma. Of me and Robbie. Of me, but none of Mor" (Durrow, 2010, 5). Her grandmother from her dads side is black. and doesn't seem to like Rachel's mom very much who is Danish and white. Rachel throughout the book keeps using the danish words she learned from her mother. But people still see her as black, not biracial.

I think Heidi Durrow would be happy that they try and promote stuff on being biracial or multiracial. I think this because in the interview she said that she thinks more people of all ages need to know about the topic of biracial/multiracial people. And by spreading the work on campus people might tell their families about it and their families will tell friends and so on.
Heidi Durrow said her favorite answer to the question "who are you"  is that she is a story. and this connects to the quote because when people ask "who are you?" usually they want a specific answer like "I'm black" or "im asain". Sometimes people don't expect you to give a longer answer. or that your biracial. Or they want "i was born in _____" and they arent satisfied with the answer of where you live at the moment.

The Synthesis blog post on beauty

In the TED talk Cameron russell talk about image and how powerful it is and says, "Image is powerful.  But also, image is superficial.  I just transformed what you thought of me in six seconds.". one thing that was simillar between Cameron Russell's talk and the documentary Colour of Beauty is that they both talk about young girls and body image. Cameron Russell said “I found out that of the 13 year old girls in the United States, 53% don’t like their bodies.  And that number goes to 78% by the time that they’re 17.” and the Colour of Beauty said “I think sometimes it is so blatantly racist, it’s disgusting…You’re constantly under this scrutiny that you can’t do anything about.  This is the skin I was given, this is what I look like—I’m sorry.” which explains how the modeling industry has such a big effect on girls. and even in Lupita Nyong'o speech she said how a girl sent her a letter and the girl wanted to lighten her skin.
Some things that were the same in Lupita Nyong'o speech and the Colour of Beauty is that they both talk about the hardships of being in the entertainment and modeling industry. Also they talk about how they overcome problems and how they keep trying at being successful.

Passion Project and Reflection

In this paragraph I’ll talk about one cause of depression, bullying.  “Nearly 19 percent of the students reported they had experienced cyberbullying during the previous 12 months. Cyberbullying was associated with all 11 of the internalizing, externalizing and substance use problems” (Fars New, 2014). The three problems listed in the quote are all thing that can come along with depression. and they aren’t the best ways to deal with depression. Next “About 1 in 5 adolescents has experienced recent online bullying and cyberbullying, like traditional bullying,it can increase the risk of mental health problems in teens as well as the misuse of drugs and alcohol” (Fars News, 2014). Just like the last quote drugs and alcohol aren’t a good way to deal with bullying. But the statistic that 1 in 5 teens have gotten bullied adds up very quickly and shows that we need to do something more about it.  Bullying in any form isn’t good and causes a lot of problems for teens the their families. But there are ways to make things better like talking.

• I chose this paragraph because I feel like I did a good job on the explanation and getting my point across. and makes my paper better than it would have been without it.
• One question i still have is that for my actual passion project if i could write about other mental illnesses that are common in teen or if i would have enough information on depression to just focus on that.

Passion project

First article

• It had a good amount of information. 
• It seems like it was for students or teachers. For me it was a easy read. 
• It seems like it was fact. Its by a good college
• The author used mostly primary sources but had some secondary too
• It was published in 2006 so its 8 years old.
• I could find the same info possibly. 
• Its a college. Specifically Brown University.

Second aritcle

• Yes it was.
• Its for students of higher
• Its fact. They have good sources. 
• It has a good amount of both
• It was written in 2014
• Maybe 

mental heath in teens

What is the percentage of teens with mental illnesses and how can we prevent this from happening?

What are the most popular illiness in teens and why?

How do mental illnesses work? and why do people get them?